azure-defender-for-cloud

azure-defender-for-cloud is a skill for Claude Code from MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills. It costs 130 tokens per session (9,723 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC-BY-4.0.

Specialist guidance for Azure Defender for Cloud, a security service for protecting cloud and multicloud resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports securing virtual machines, containers and Kubernetes, SQL databases, storage, and multicloud deployments.
Why use it?
It helps apply security controls and troubleshoot protection across different resource types and cloud environments.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the azure-agent-skills plugin — 199 skills shipped together , and of azure-agent-skills

Good fit It supports securing virtual machines, containers and Kubernetes, SQL databases, storage, and multicloud deployments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoftdocs/agent-skills/azure-defender-for-cloud
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-defender-for-cloud
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install azure-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 199 skills.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 130 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,723 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 222
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00130 $0.09723
Opus 5.5 $0.00052 $0.03889
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00026 $0.01945
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00972

Measured today against content hash d7e49d535bb4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-defender-for-cloud scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/azure-defender-for-cloud/SKILL.md · 336 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed CC-BY-4.0

The repository is licensed CC-BY-4.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. today Changed · +1 lines · +1 tokens per session d7e49d535bb4
  2. 14d ago Changed · -2 lines · +6 tokens per session deb0cc7d85d5
  3. 21d ago Changed · -3 tokens per session 498dc58115c5
  4. 27d ago Changed · -2 lines · -2 tokens per session 6cc808bb82d3
  5. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +1 tokens per session 22a399edc6e4
  6. 1mo ago Changed · -1 lines · +2 tokens per session 0be30e7374d9
  7. 1mo ago First seen · 339 lines · 125 tokens per session scan A 48082624c440

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azure-defender-for-cloud is a skill published in the GitHub repository MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills (787 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed CC-BY-4.0. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 9,723 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.